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An 11-year-old girl has died while her twin sister is in critical condition after eating toad in Hoa Binh Province. An 11-year-old girl has died while her twin sister is in critical condition after eating toad in Hoa Binh Province. According to the Vietnam National Hospital of Paediatrics, the surviving 11-year-old from the northern province of Hoa Binh was in critical condition due to poisoning. "She is receiving treatment and is now in stable condition," the hospital said. The twins’ family said that the children caught the toad and cooked it themselves on May 30. Two hours after eating the toad, they started vomiting and were sent to Hoa Binh Provincial General Hospital. Despite receiving extensive treatment at the hospital, one of the girls died and the other was transferred to the Vietnam National Hospital of Paediatrics. Deputy head of the Emergency and Toxic Management Department at the Vietnam National Hospital of Paediatrics, doctor Le Ngoc Duy, said … [Read more...] about Girl dies after toad meal

Two-headed girl dies of lung, blood complications: doctors (30-05-2007) HA NOI — A girl born with two heads in northern Hai Duong Province died after 19 days at the Ha Noi-based National Paediatrics Hospital. Doctors said Nguyen Thi Hoa suffered respiratory collapse and septicemia because her body with one heart and two lungs could not provide enough blood and oxygen to keep her alive. The baby’s family had asked the hospital to disconnect her oxygen supply as they said they were worried they could not afford the medical fees. However, hospital authorities declined the request and said all treatment for the baby was free of charge. "We wanted to feed her to make her bigger and improve her health, then conduct operations to separate the two heads, but we failed," said the hospital’s director Nguyen Thanh Liem. The 3.8kg baby was the first daughter of a 28-year-old teacher, who was originally misdiagnosed as being pregnant with twins. —VNS … [Read more...] about Two-headed girl dies of lung, blood complications: doctors

Police in the northern city of Hai Phong are investigating the death of a 13-year-old girl who died at a private nursery several days ago. At around 8 a.m. last Thursday, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Anh was brought to the nursery owned by Nguyen Thi Bich, 49, in Le Chan District after having breakfast. Three hours later, Bich called Anh's family to say that the girl had vomited and seemed fatigue. Anh's parents arrived at the scene shortly after and saw her lying unconscious. They rushed her to the hospital. Doctors performed X-ray scans and said the girl had a brain injury and had fallen into a coma. She died at 2 p.m. the following day. An autopsy showed Anh had a 8-cm crack on her skull, although her head skin and her body did not have bruises or scratches. Bich is being detained for further investigations. She maintained that Anh did not fall or have any accident at her nursery. If there was one, she said, it was because other children pushed her while playing. … [Read more...] about 13-year-old girl dies from brain injury at private nursery

HAI DUONG (VNS) — The Hai Duong Preventive Medicine Centre yesterday reported that a young girl died by meningococcal disease, a contagious disease caused by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium. The death of 18-year-old Do Thi Xuyen of Tu Minh Ward in Hai Duong City is the first Neisseria meningitidis fatality in the province so far. Xuyen had been admitted to Hai Duong General Hospital with slight fever and headache on February 20. The hospital sent her to Military Hospital 108 in Ha Noi, where she was diagnosed with more serious symptoms of shock due to infection, respiratory failure and bleeding disorder. Tests confirmed that she had a blood infection and meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis. She died on the morning of February 22 at Military Hospital 108. Authorities made a list of people who had direct contact with Xuyen, such as friends, family members and medical staff, and informed the local authorities and the patient‘s school, Luong The … [Read more...] about Girl dies from meningitis in Hai Duong

A girl from Cape Town, South Africa died during a school trip to Vietnam’s popular resort town of Hoi An on Friday, reportedly after feeling tired during a bicycle ride. African News Agency said that the victim, Shannen Rustin, was on a history tour of Southeast Asia with 31 of her 11th grade classmates, two teachers and one parent. On the mild and overcast Friday morning, the group left on a cycle ride around Hoi An in central Vietnam. Some students reportedly had difficulty riding their bicycles and traveled on the back of scooters instead. Rustin was among them. The report quoted Debbie Schafer, Minister of Education in the Western Cape, as saying that Rustin told a local tour operator that she felt tired after around 30 minutes of cycling. She was put on the back of a scooter with the operator, who said she was still “chatting and laughing with him”, Schafer said. But when the group stopped at a bridge crossing for a rest 10 minutes later, Rustin … [Read more...] about S African girl dies during cycling tour in Vietnam’s Hoi An